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  1. Re:We're all in the field of PR on US Navy Researchers Get Drones To Swarm On Target · · Score: 1

    That was only the test program to test the fire detection. The problem was that it is illegal to use autonomous drones in the Netherlands. The technology was ready.

  2. Re:We're all in the field of PR on US Navy Researchers Get Drones To Swarm On Target · · Score: 1

    Example how to use swarming for a good cause. Sorry, part is in Dutch:
    http://fireswarm.nl/

  3. Re:I feel like a dope on Apple's "Spring Forward" Event Debuts Apple Watch and More · · Score: 1

    I didn't buy an Apple TV because modern TV's don't need it any more. Modern TV's can play streaming video's themselves. I run a serviio server on a Mac Mini and can play any movie on TV. Netflix and others are installed on my tv but I don't use them.

  4. Looking for a dumb TV on Ask Slashdot: Affordable Large HD/UHD/4K "Stupid" Screens? · · Score: 1

    Just for Christmas I was looking for a new TV. Not 55" but 47" but all brands have the whole range of screen size. I checked out all models a local big shop (Mediamarkt) had and non of them was dumb.

    When the TV came (a LG model) I installed it with network connected. Upon installing it asked if it could send information to LG and I declined (needed for giving suggestions what to watch). Later it ask if it could send audio to its server which I also declined (needed for audio control). If you want to you can change the setting in the menu.

    From the smart part of the tv I only use the ability to watch tv I missed and to play movies from a Serviio server (because Plex couldn't get the subtitles right).

  5. Re: Science... Yah! on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    It describes there are three kind of eaters. One of them is emotional eaters. Using food as a stress release is not a good idea.

    Well that's exactly what I mean: emotional eating! I didn't say it goes without problems.

    Sorry, but emotional eating is the problem. Good luck in the future.

  6. Re: Science... Yah! on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    If you are in a group, having a dinner, it can be a great stress release. But that is not the eating, it is being together with people you like and who like you. If you eat alone, and that releases your stress, you are bound to have a problem. You will learn that eating releases stress so if you have stress you have to eat. I don't know if you can watch this program: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme... It describes there are three kind of eaters. One of them is emotional eaters. Using food as a stress release is not a good idea.

  7. Re: Science... Yah! on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    No, the other function of eating is NOT stress release. Some people (even cultures) use food this way but it is no a function of eating.

  8. Re:Touch ID for $100?? on Apple Announces iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3, OS X Yosemite and More · · Score: 1

    There are more difference, but not on that page. Look at the tech specs.

  9. Re:Metrics.... Experience Not on Why Software Builds Fail · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Experience if you did "at least 1,000 builds in the previous nine months". That's not experienced, try 10,000 builds in the last 10 years.

  10. Re:History on Apple Devices To Reach Parity With Windows PCs In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Apple is to Betamax as Android is to VHS. [Unlikely ]

    Agree, in twenty years, only old people know what we are talking about if we speak about iPhones and Android phones.

  11. Re:Why not just multiple monitors. Maximize wrong. on 4K Is For Programmers · · Score: 1

    The problem is in the programs, not the OS. You can very easily set a maximum window size of your main form. Hardly any programmer does this. The program should maximize to what it needs, not to the maximum screen size any more.

  12. Re:Flawed, never useful on Experiments Reveal That Deformed Rubber Sheet Is Not Like Spacetime · · Score: 1

    Analogies are like Microsoft programs, there is always something wrong with them.

  13. Re:Try WEBsdr really on Ask Slashdot: How To Build a Morse Code Audio Library For Machine Learning? · · Score: 1

    On that website http://websdr.org/ you can find online software defined radio stations. You can use your computer to record CW without a receiver.
    73's

  14. Re:Pulsatile vs Pulse-less Designs on French Team Implants First Long-Term Artificial Heart · · Score: 1

    The expected Five-year lifespan of a unit doesn't sound like much, but keep in mind many patients will be elderly, and your goal may simply be to give them improved quality-of-life, until in a few years something else kills them instead.

    They article states that

    The longest a patient has lived with SynCardia's heart is just under four years.

    That means it's not a small stap in increasing the lifespan.

  15. Re: common sense for 40 generations? on Climatologist James Hansen Defends Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    The waste will be a problem for a long time. In Germany they already had to dig up radioactive waste : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine. You can not count on your grand children to solve your problems.

  16. Re: common sense for 40 generations? on Climatologist James Hansen Defends Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    Do you really think we are going to use coal for 10.000 years?

  17. Re: common sense for 40 generations? on Climatologist James Hansen Defends Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    Do you want to hold on to that coke can for 10.000 years? OK, not you alone, also you child. And his/her child for the next 40 generations.

  18. Re:That was not the reason on EV Owner Arrested Over 5 Cents Worth of Electricity From School's Outlet · · Score: 1

    In the article:
    Given the uncooperative attitude and accusations of damage to his vehicle, the officer chose to document the incident on an incident report.

    If he had said 'yes sir, sorry sir', nothing had happend. So the officer wanted to teach him a lesson. Look likes it backfired.

  19. Re:New definitions on European Health Levels Suddenly Collapsed After 2003 and Nobody Is Sure Why · · Score: 1

    Yes, something along that lines. Maybe they changed the definition of 'Healthy Life Years Expectancy'. This would have a huge impact on the figures.

  20. Re:Confused as usual. on Apple Starts Blocking Unauthorized Lightning Cables With iOS 7 · · Score: 1

    > There is also the fact that a micro-USB charging port is > mandatory in the EU on mobile phones, just so that people > do not have to buy the expensive ones from the phone vendor.

    most phone/tablet/gadget manufacturers responded by making mini-usb or micro-usb charging ports standard in every country. not apple. they met the requirement in europe with an adaptor while keeping their high-priced proprietary (and disposable) charger everywhere else.

    Neither did Samsung with there tablet, they did the same as Apple.

  21. Re:Be realistic, iPad is far better starting optio on For Education, Why TI-83 > iPad · · Score: 1

    You know what, I used google and found out you can buy i-Logo. Starting point for learning a language. An other classic: Basic, can you run that on the iPad? Yes, its called Basic! So, where is the problem?

  22. Re:.com is still king on Dotless Domain Names Prohibited, ICANN Tells Google · · Score: 1

    Nope, you type their name in google and follow the link it gives.

  23. Re:Don't carry one on Ask Slashdot: How To Stay Ahead of Phone Tracking ? · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of microprocessors that can wake up at a certain time to save power. Only the timer part of the chip gets power, the rest is turned off. ARM uses them, the 'Wake-up Interrupt Controller (WIC)'. This doesn't mean it always works this way, but a lot of phones uses ARM processors.

  24. Re:Open Source please on No Firefox For iOS, Says Mozilla's Product Head · · Score: 0

    I have 400+ apps on my iPad, never payed anything for them.

  25. Re:Dear EU on No Firefox For iOS, Says Mozilla's Product Head · · Score: 1

    The only reason VLC was pulled was that one of the developers complained. An Apple hater didn't want his software on the App Store.

    Yes, because by the GPL license / VLC license or something, you should be able to give the software to anyone. If you download it using the App Store you can only give it to five other people. (I never give/take software to/from anyone, just download a fresh copy).